Cloud Security

Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today released its Cloud Application Attack Snapshot: Q1 2019 research, which examined over one hundred thousand cloud application attacks aimed at global organizations between September 2018 and February 2019. Overall, targeting attempts increased by 65 percent during that time period with 40 percent originating in Nigeria. China was the second most prevalent country of origin, with 26 percent of attacks originating from Chinese IP addresses. Cloud application...

Zscaler, Inc., the leader in cloud security, announced today the release of its semi-annual 2019 Cloud Security Insights Threat Report – An Analysis of SSL/TLS-based Threats, which examines encrypted traffic across the Zscaler™ cloud from July through December 2018. The report, compiled by the ZscalerTM ThreatLabZ research team, delves into a variety of attacks executed over SSL and blocked by Zscaler, including phishing attacks, botnets, browser exploitation, and malicious content. As the use of SSL...

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announced the availability of three new cloud-based Hardware Security Module (HSM) services, HSM On Demand for CyberArk, HSM On Demand for Hyperledger and HSM On Demand for Oracle TDE. Each service is available through the SafeNet Data Protection on Demand platform, a marketplace of cloud-based HSM, encryption and key management services that easily integrates with most widely used cloud services and IT products to protect data wherever...

CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), the global leader in privileged access security, today announced ground-breaking new capabilities to simplify the continuous discovery and protection of privileged accounts in cloud environments. The CyberArk Privileged Access Security Solution v10.8 is the first-of-its-kind to automate detection, alerting and response for unmanaged and potentially-risky Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. This version also features new industry-leading Just-in-Time capabilities that deliver flexible user access to cloud-based or on-premises Windows systems. According to Gartner,...

CrowdStrike® Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, today announced CrowdStrike Falcon® for Mobile, the first enterprise endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution for mobile devices. Based on CrowdStrike’s proven EDR technology for enterprise endpoints, Falcon for Mobile enables security teams to hunt for advanced threats on mobile devices and provides unprecedented visibility into malicious, unwanted, or accidental access to sensitive corporate data, while protecting user privacy and without impacting device performance. Leveraging CrowdStrike’s cloud-native...

Centrify, a leading provider of cloud-ready Zero Trust Privilege to secure modern enterprises, today announced results of a new survey revealing that most IT decision makers are not prioritising Privileged Access Management (PAM) practices and solutions, despite knowing privileged credential abuse is involved in almost three out of every four breaches. The survey of 1,000 IT decision makers, 500 from the U.K. and 500 from the U.S. found that, of those whose organisations have experienced...

Aquilai has launched their cloud based Ajax Intelligence solution to combat all forms of email phishing prevalent on Microsoft Exchange, Office 365 and G Suite emails. Shaped in collaboration with GCHQ and National Cyber Security Centre staff, Ajax Intelligence is the most effective solution against email phishing available on the market. The architecture is optimised and validated as being effective against current and evolving phishing threats that will continue to impact all types of business,...

Avast (LSE:AVST), a global leader in cybersecurity products, and Barracuda Networks, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-enabled security solutions, today announce an agreement under which Barracuda will become a master reseller of Avast Business CloudCare, Avast Management Console and Avast Antivirus Security solutions. “Small to mid-size businesses are currently underserved by the market as security systems tend to be targeted to the needs of larger enterprises. Through Avast’s 30 years of cybersecurity expertise, we have...

Reading & Farnborough 4 February 2019. SecureCloud+, a trusted provider of next-generation secure information systems to government and defence, has been contracted by the Royal Air Force to deliver network collaboration services for Team Tempest. Team Tempest is a global network of international partners formed by the Royal Air Force Rapid Capability Office (RCO) along with BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, MBDA and Leonardo. SecureCloud+ is the only SME to be part of the team, which...

CrowdStrike® Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, today announced that as of January 21, 2019, it has an overall rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars - the highest overall score of all vendors named to the January 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Endpoint Detection and Response Solutions. This distinction is based on 78 verified customer reviews. Also, as of January 21, 2019, CrowdStrike has the highest overall rating of the vendors...